The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 19/11/1921 quotes a poem submitted by J.E. Smith, of 10 Cambridge Terrace, Gateshead, 17/11/1921


Remembrance

In every street and every lane
In hamlet, and in town,
They mourn for some lost loved one slain
Untimely stricken down.
Crosses and cenotaphs and scrolls
Tablets, on every side,
Confront us with their mournfil rolls
Of men who fought and died

The men who shell-swept trenches lined,
In shambles foul immured,
Who suffering bore, and ne-er repined,
And horrors grim endured,
The war-proof Regulars, foot and horse,
Their sacrifice is known -
Brave Citizens, in mightier force,
Into the welter thrown.

Our lion-hearted seamen manned
Their iron ring all through,
Though death-traps lurked on every hand,
And storms around them blew.
Of Naval men who ploughed the deep,
And kindred Merchant braves,
How many now are hushed in sleep,
Beneath the moaning waves?

Our heroes met the onset dread,
With noble courage true -
All honour to the glorious dead -
Honour the living, too.
The dead are now immortal souls
And with the great elect -
How will they value shrines and scrolls,
If comrades we neglect?